Friday, June 8, 2012
This is the first time since 1994 that four American plays are in contention for Best Play. And three of these productions mark the Broadway debut of the playwright.
Thirteen of ou…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:09PMOur 17 Experts are divided over the winner of the Best Actress (Play) race at the Tony Awards.
Eleven of them are predicting that Tracie Bennett will win for her Olivier-…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:02AMFourteen of our 17 Experts predict Philip Seymour Hoffman will win Best Actor (Play) for headlining the fourth rialto revival of 1949 Tony champ "Death of a Salesman." Hoffman, who…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:33AMThursday, June 7, 2012
The race for Best Actor (Musical) is a close one with two Broadway newcomers -- Jeremy Jordan ("Newsies") and Steve Kazee ("Once") -- jostling for the lead against vetera…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:04PMAll 17 of our Experts agree that Audra McDonald is on track to take home her fifth Tony Award for her lead performance in the musical "The Gershwins Porgy and Bess." This Broadway …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:36AMTuesday, June 5, 2012
Most television viewers currently know Mike O'Malley from his Emmy-nominated role as Burt Hummel on "Glee," but he has been pulling double duty this past season as a producer a…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:29PMMonday, June 4, 2012
Tony Awards will feature more performances than ever before. From the press release: "The evening, which will be packed with more entertainment than ever before, will feature performanc…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:36PMSunday, June 3, 2012
While Off-Broadway fare accounted for more than half of the nominees (76 of 150) for plays and musicals at the Drama Desk Awards, they claimed just one of the 24 prizes. Otherwise, only Broa…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:32PMThursday, May 31, 2012
NBC's "Smash" is about the backstage drama of a Broadway-bound tuner, but star Jack Davenport admits that until recently he wasn't a fan of the genre. "My knowledge of…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:58PMWednesday, May 30, 2012
The Hollywood Reporter holds a roundtable with six top drama actresses: "Ask a drama series actress to name the toughest part of her job, and inevitably the conversation turns to mother…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:42PMFriday, May 25, 2012
All but two of our Experts predict Philip Seymour Hoffman will win Best Actor (Play) for headlining the fourth rialto revival of 1949 Tony champ "Death of a Salesman." Hoffman, who…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:15AMMonday, May 21, 2012
The race for Best Musical is dominated by two tuner adaptations of films with each earning the backing of some of our Experts.
"Newsies" is a stage version of the 19…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 07:14AMSunday, May 20, 2012
"That was the greatest opening number of any awards show I've ever seen!" Washington Post theater writer Peter Marks gasped to me backstage at the Tonys last year when Neil Pat…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:29PMFriday, May 18, 2012
The Drama League named "Once" as top tuner and "Other Desert Cities" as the best new play of the year at their 78th annual awards on Friday. Both of those off-Broadw…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:05PMThursday, May 17, 2012
The Broadway run of "Newsies" will now be open-ended: "Surprising no one following the show's grosses, it's just been announced 'Newsies,' which opened on Broa…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:35PMThis is the first time since 1994 that four American plays are in contention for Best Play. And three of these productions mark the Broadway debut of the playwright.
Nine of our Ex…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:04AMTuesday, May 15, 2012
Peggy Olson started out as the meek secretary of advertising executive Don Draper (Jon Hamm) in the first season of "Mad Men." Five years on, she has moved up the corporate ladder,…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:37PMSunday, May 13, 2012
Celebrating Broadway moms on Mother's Day: "Every once in a while a play comes along with a genuine mother of a maternal role: from 'Medea' through 'The Glass Menagerie&…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:21PMSaturday, May 12, 2012
TV cancellations probably won't affect Emmy nominations: "Emmy contenders emerged largely unscathed even as more and more programs found the network chopping block this week, with K…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:59PMThursday, May 10, 2012
Pour yourself a glass of scotch, Jessica Pare, because when it comes to your breakout role on "Mad Men," life is about to imitate art.
Just as Pare's character Megan w…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:44AMWednesday, May 9, 2012
"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" will hold a special "Tony" performance. From the press release: "The high flying production will hold a special Tony Sunday performan…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:00PMMonday, May 7, 2012
The off-Broadway version of Tony contender "Once" won three prizes at the 27th annual edition of the Lucille Lortel Awards Sunday. The tuner, based on the 2006 Oscar-winning film, …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:59AMSunday, May 6, 2012
Now that the Tony Award nominations have been announced, Broadway fans can win prizes while playing a new Facebook app – The Tony Awards: Predict-the Winners Game – presented by …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:47AMSaturday, May 5, 2012
Tony Award snubs claim their first victims: "Teresa Rebeck's comedy 'Seminar,' which received no nominations, quickly announced that it would shutter this Sunday. Jeff Goldb…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:29PMWednesday, May 2, 2012
Before predicting who will win at the 66th annual Tony Awards be sure to read our overviews and handicapping of races. And check out the charts that show the rankings and odds for all t…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:07PMTuesday, May 1, 2012
Almost 300 Gold Derby readers predicted the nominees in the top eight races at the Tony Awards. In total, our Users logged over 2,200 predictions. To see how you fared, log in to your a…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:44PMWith 37 productions in contention for this year's Tony Awards, there were plenty of surprises in Tuesday's nominations announcement. (See full list of nominations here.)
Among th…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:34AMThe 66th annual edition of these top theater kudos will be handed out on Sunday, June 10 at New York's Beacon Theater and air live on CBS. Nominees were determined by 22 theater professi…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:20AMMonday, April 30, 2012
"Once," the stage adaptation of the 2007 Oscar-winning film about an Irish composer and his Czech muse, has a leading 11 Tony Awards nominations including Best Musical and bids by …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:21PMThe Tony Awards announce this year's winners of the Isabelle Stevenson Award and Special Tony Awards. From the press release: "The recipient of the Isabelle Stevenson Award will be …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:42PMSunday, April 29, 2012
Entertainment Weekly offers its final Tony nominee predictions: "... whose names will be called when Kristin Chenoweth and Jim Parsons announce the nominations this Tuesday at 8:30 a.m.…
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